“…Because magadiite has poor crystallinity and large single crystals are not available (Brindley, 1969), its structure has not been refined. Although many structural models have been proposed on the basis of the chemical composition, infrared (IR) analysis, and the ratio of Q3 [HOSi(OSi)3] to Q4 [Si(OSi)4] environments obtained by 29Si magic-angle-spinning (MAS) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) (Almond et al, 1996(Almond et al, , 1997Brandt et al, 1987Brandt et al, , 1988Garc6s et al, 1988;Huang et al, 1999;Pinnavaia et aL, 1986;Scholzen et al, 1991;Schwieger et al, 1985), the structure of magadiite is still obscure. On the other hand, intercalation reactions and further silylation reactions involving magadiite (Mercier et aL, 1994;Ogawa et al, 1998a;Okutomo et al, 1999;Ruiz-Hitzky and Rojo, 1980;Ruiz-Hitzky et al, 1985;Yanagisawa et al, 1990Yanagisawa et al, , 1988aYanagisawa et al, , 1988b) have attracted considerable attention for many applications, such as in adsorbents (Hadjar et al, 1995;Ogawa et al, 1998b) and microporous materials (Dailey and Pinnavaia, 1992;Landis et al, 1991;Sprung et al, 1990;Wong and Cheng, 1993;Yanagisawa et al, 1991).…”